Wednesday marked one year since a white gunman opened fire at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight women. This senseless act of violence is an example of how hypersexualization and fetishization can manifest itself into deadly outcomes.
HOUSTON, Texas -- Wednesday marked one year since a white gunman opened fire at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight women, six of whom were Asian. Investigators said the killer described his actions as being the result of his sex addiction, calling attention back to the on-going issues that Asian American women face of fetishization and hypersexualization.
"I remember being horrified. These women didn't do anything wrong. They were just working," said Kimberly Nguyen."I have a lot of friends in the salon and massage industry. It was pretty sobering to realize that this could have happened to any one of them." She said this senseless act of violence is an example of how hypersexualization and fetishization can manifest itself into deadly outcomes. It comes from harmful stereotypes of Asian women being docile, submissive, or exotic. Advocates said these concepts are not a new issue and have existed since the first group of Asian women immigrated to this country in the late 1800s.
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